Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Life ain't the movies.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.