All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school when they were quite young to work, because there actually was no choice. So they've always impressed me with their resilience, their good spirits, their courage. I just remember them carrying on and just doing their lives. They really made a strong impression on me.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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