When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

I am more or less reading all the time.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.