Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.