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

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

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

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.