Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.