My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.