Zygmunt Bauman

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.