I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

We are all children until our fathers die.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.