If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!