I grew up kissing books and bread.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.