The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

I don't have an opinion about whether or not politics should appear more in fiction or not, generally. I think politics are a part of life, but a part of life that most people don't think about very much, most of the time. Or, people think about it superficially and they talk about it superficially because they don't know very much.

I think, life is miserable.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.