“I'm trying to make myself invisible.""That's an odd thing to attempt.”
“I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.”
“In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...].”
“I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change.”
“Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?”
“I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.”