My life is a reading list.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.