If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
Garden work clears the mind.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.