Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

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

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.

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

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.