We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.