I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.