When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.