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.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.