Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.