Fiction Is Socially Meaningful.

He Decided Then That He Would Love Her Forever No Matter What Came To Pass. It Was Not So Much A Matter Of Deciding As Accepting The Inevitability Of It. It Made Him Feel Better, Though He Felt Perturbed, Too, Worried That This Kiss Was Wrong. But From His Point Of View, At Fourteen Years Old, Their Love Was Entirely Unavoidable. It Had Started On The Day They'd Clung To His Glass Box And Kissed In The Sea, And Now It Must Go On Forever. He Felt Certain Of This.

I'm A Hypocrite, Of Course, And I Live With That, But I Live.

Even Though I May Not Intend It When I Set Out To Write The Book, These Places Just Emerge As Major Players In What I'm Doing, Almost As If They Are Insisting On It.

My Book Is Traditional. It Runs Counter To The Post-modern Spirit.

You Should Learn To Say Nothing That Will Cause You Regret. You Should Not Say What Is Not In Your Heart - Or What Is Only In Your Heart For A Moment. But You Know This - Silence Is Better.