We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.