As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?

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

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.