At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.