That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.