Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.