Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

Love is all there's time for.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.