I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.