A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.