People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.