Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.