The truth of the story lies in the details.

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.