The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay

Losing my virginity was very boring.

Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.