"Hope is a thing with feathers. Or else it's a thing with teeth."

"I’m not a prophet. Prophets can see into the future. I just look at what’s already happened and say, 'This could go on.'"

"When you're a writer, you're always eavesdropping."

"We are not always what we seem, and a good trick of the mind is to convince yourself that you are what you wish to be."

"If you are a woman, you are a target."