Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

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.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.