And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.