The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.