What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.