I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.