shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation.

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

I wondered about the half-life of regret.