All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.