I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.