There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

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

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

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

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

I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.