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.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

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

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Is perception equivalent to existence?