Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.