She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.