“I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.”
“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book.”
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
“They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.”