For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always at the heart of life. No matter how old you are, to me life is always about changing and growing and discovering and that's not always easy.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.