I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.