I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

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.

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.

We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.