Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.