I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.