Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

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.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.