You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.