Style is a way of talking about yourself.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.