“For me writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn’t writing prayers, as I was often…

“The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.” Requiem for a Nun (1961)

“The funny thing about time in the OR, whether you race frenetically or proceed steadily, is that you…

“Nothing is more boring to me than the re-re-re-statement that language isn’t sufficiently nuanced to describe the world….

“Maybe sometimes you just had to accept that the story of your life was a crafted thing–selected, curated,…

“What’s the difference between being a good mother and being a good daughter? Practically a lot, but symbolically…

‘It’s very good jam,’ said the Queen. ‘Well, I don’t want any to-day, at any rate.’ ‘You couldn’t have…

“In my work as an artist I am accustomed to […] tension […] between my senses, which are…

“The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into…

“If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot…