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

No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.