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

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

First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?