I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

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

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.

Why do men feel threatened by women?