"In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things."
- Edna O'Brien
"Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what th..."
"If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately."
"In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature."
"When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it."