Lorraine Toussaint

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.