It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.