I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that... Freud was always saying he was a scientist.

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.