When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

I have a terrible memory.

I can't write what I don't believe in.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.