I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!