I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.