Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.