I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

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

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.