My protagonists, male and female, are me.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.