Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Everybody believes in chance.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.