Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.