Writing is a way of life, a way of being in the world.

"Every book is a journey, and every journey changes you."

The money came between us like a ghost, and I could not touch her hand without feeling that chill.

Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.