Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.