Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.