Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it’s coming at me and I need to escape.
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I’m going to refrain from launching any.
When you are expending much energy on someone else’s demise, it’s like you weaken your psychic immune system.
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
I’ve subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.
Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about something, it’s like hearing the first two notes of a song and you can always identify the song. They can just say a word and I know exactly what they’re talking about.
I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.
If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I’d probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn’t see them, no one would know me.
I’m at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There’s a new map there people that are trying to read. I think if I did get any kind of enhancement I would be very public about it. I don’t want people wondering – I want them to know.
We want to believe we couldn’t be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.
I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person’s identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.
I wish somebody knew whether or not I’m Jewish.
I always think it’s useful to get an outside opinion.
If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology.
You know you’re screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.
We’re not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don’t know those people. But we all know people who behave very smugly and are very egotistical and put you down as a manner of improving their own place in the world or improving their own place in the world.
I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they’re so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women. Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed.
You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I’ll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don’t think out the plot ahead of time.
If I’d done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.