The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

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.

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

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.