“We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.” — Jules Renard Quote

“We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.”

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”

“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”

“What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.”

“I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.”

“It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.”