Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.