Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

There is no God, there is only what you want.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.