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

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.