I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for being so dismissive. You have to think about what you're thinking about and realize that you're thinking it.

There's not usually one reason why we do anything and, in fact, often we don't know why we've done what we've done, especially what we have said or why, for instance, in conversation, which can be very tricky. Finally, we say something and think, "Why did we say that?" In retrospect we might know.

Certainly there will always be stories.

I don't know what a natural thought process is.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.