Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.