Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.