As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.