The powerful don't make revolutions

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

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

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.