My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

I don't believe in happy families.