If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.