If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.

The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm really hoping that it's not the rule from here on out. It's really distressing for me to witness this. I really hope we don't have to throw all decency out the window, just because Trump's president.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.