I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.