The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

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

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.