There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

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

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.