The Whole Melrose Series Is

Looking After Children Can Be A Subtle Way Of Giving Up... They Become The Whole Ones, The Well Ones, The Postponement Of Happiness, The Ones Who Won't Drink Too Much, Give Up, Get Divorced, Become Mentally Ill. The Part Of Oneself That's Fighting Against Decay And Depression Is Transferred To Guarding Them From Decay And Depression. In The Meantime One Decays And Gets Depressed.

The Whole Melrose Series Is An Attempt To Tell The Truth, And Is Based On The Idea That There Is Some Salutary Or Liberating Power In Telling The Truth.

The First Book I Fell In Love With Was 'little Toot,' The Story Of An Adorable Tugboat Operating Out Of New York Harbor.

I'm Not Trying To Uncover The Facts Of My Life But To Discover The Dramatic Truth Of The Situations I Was In.

Detachment Is What Interests Me, Seeing How People Couldn't Have Been Any Other Way, How They Were The Product Of Forces That They Had No Control Over.