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

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

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.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.