What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.