I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

“All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else w…”

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, w…”

“The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, paradin…”

“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the hea…”