Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

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

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

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.

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.