I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.