Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.