I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.