What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

No emotion is the final one.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.