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

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Usually my ideas are small.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.