You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.