The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's pretty interested in selling your worldly goods and storing up riches in heaven. However, religious fundamentalists have made it all about sex, and that's like saying, "Look at the sex and we're just not going to talk about what you may be doing in a financial way that is sinful."

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.