the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

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

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.