If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.