A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?