If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.