A new car is not going to change your life.

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.