There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.