I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

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

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.