Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

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

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

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.

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.