You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.