That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

My goal in life is to become an adjective.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.