I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.