I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.