My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

...I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

Every seed has a story.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.