People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

Hunger steals the memory

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.