The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.