I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.