There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.