The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.