Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?