There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.

Excitement always leads to tears.