Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

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. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.