Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

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.'

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever