If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.