To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.