All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
I don't believe in happy families.
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.