A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.