In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

And I want out of this life on drugs.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.