The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out