Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

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.

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.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.