Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Much in our lives is chance.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.