'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.