I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.