Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

When there's a war, people get married.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.