Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.