I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.