One writes not by will but by surrender.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.