Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

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

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.