Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

it's amazing what you can get used to.