The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.
To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.