People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.