Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.