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

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

There is no fool like an educated fool.