There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.