We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

The time has to be right and the heart willing.