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

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Much of my work has been done in first person.

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.

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

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

We tire differently if we love or love not.