I continued to protect him with my silence.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.