Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.