A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

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

My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.

The bell that measures time is ringing

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Powerlessness and silence go together.