As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.