It's fun to give pleasure to people.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.