“All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.”

“I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.”

“You have to live your story before being able to write your story.”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.”

“I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. ”