There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth.