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

All art is knowing when to stop.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.