Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.