we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.