Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

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

Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals