Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

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.'

it's amazing what you can get used to.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.