I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.

The real writer is one who really writes.

It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.