To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Art's too long and life's too short.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.