Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.