If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

To want is to have a weakness.

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

What you get is no longer what you see.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.