What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.