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.

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.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.