Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

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

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.