But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

Bullies are just frightened people.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.