When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Try to be accurate about stuff.