Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.