In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.