Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.