Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.