The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.

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.