The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.