It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.