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

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

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

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.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

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