All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.