Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.
The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.