He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.

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.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!