I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair..

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same..

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live..

Literature is humanity talking to itself..

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every indivi….

It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her,….

The characters write the plot. Their natures do..

Small breasts are best for the long haul..

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe..