It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.