In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.