I won't read novels while writing novels.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?