Swimming Always Cleans Your Soul

It's True: One Of The Things That I've Always Thought About American Society Is That You Never Get The Sort Of Natural Politicisation Of Class Consciousness That You Would Get In The United Kingdom Or Even In Australia.

I Had Known Loneliness Before, And Emptiness Upon The Moor, But I Had Never Been A Nothing, A Nothing Floating On A Nothing, Known By Nothing, Lonelier And Colder Than The Space Between The Stars. It Was More Frightening Than Being Dead.

Then I Fell In Love And Everything Went To Hell.

Writers Are Always Envious, Mean-minded, Filled With Rage And Envyat Other's Good Fortune. There Is Nothing Like The Failure Of A Close Friend To Cheer Us Up.

I Don't Separate My Books Into Historical Novels And The Rest. To Me, They're All Made-up Worlds, And Both Kinds Are Borne Out Of Curiosity, Some Investigation Into The Past.