Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Solitude is considered un-American.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.