An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.