I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.