Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

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.

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.