Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

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

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.