Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

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

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.