For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.