Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I did not lose myself all at once.