I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.