I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

I have a really good life and I really like it.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.