We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

It's the idea of baggage. When you hear about people in their 40s boast about not having baggage. I think having no baggage is your baggage. That means that you haven't thrown yourself into the mess of life.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to read masterpieces. I just want to read one amazing book after another. As a completist you are generally reading the bad ones.