Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.