My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.