We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

The political is personal.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.