If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the end of the 100 or 125 or 150 years when we were the undisputed arbiter and leader of the world.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.