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Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.