Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.