The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.