I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.

In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.