But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.