Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.