The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Morning always comes.