I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.