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

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.