Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

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

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.