Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.