You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.