Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.