"She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse."

"What you dream, you can grow."

"Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with."

"I think it's bad for writers to think too much about what their themes are, or to over-intellectualize their own work…"

"The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be."

"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before…"

"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."

"“For me—as I think it is for a lot of women and girls—I felt that they were figures that had power, and I felt very p…"

"It is clear when reading about the Holocaust that evil exists. But what was less apparent to me until I began to do r…"

"The persecution of people who are different, whether it's women as witches, whether it's Jews, whoever it is, it alwa…"