We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.