Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

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

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.