I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

Single is a choice, just like Married is.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

Hope Love Grace Luckthere is space between them because you can't hanle them if all four comes at once...enjoy hope, , , , definitely love will come to you with a small gap, and so grace and luck too.

All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people’s brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.