I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.

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.

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.