I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.