Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

My life is a reading list.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.