The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.