Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.