The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

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

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.