It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Surviving means being born over and over.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.