Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.