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.

The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

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.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.