There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.