Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.