Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.