“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”

“I need to take an emotional breath, step back, and remind myself who’s actually in charge of my life.”

“Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them.”

“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”

“... there is a very fine line between lust and anger; both are passionate emotions.”

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”