I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

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.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.