People In Love, It Is Well Known,

And Yet It Takes Only The Smallest Pleasure Or Pain To Teach Us Time’s Malleability.

I'm Interested In Such Things As The Difference Between How We Perceive The World And What The World Turns Out To Be. The Difference Is Between The Stories We Tell Others And The Stories We Tell Ourselves. There Is A Wonderful Russian Saying, Which I Use As The Epigraph Of One Of My Novels, Which Goes, He Lies Like An Eyewitness. Which Is Very Sly, Clever And True.

Books Are Where Things Are Explained To You; Life Is Where Things Aren't.

In Life, Every Ending Is Just The Start Of Another Story.

Irony ... May Be Defined As What People Miss.