I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.