The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a pa….

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture..

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone..