Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.