Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.