Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?