Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.