The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.
You can't find peace by avoiding life.