All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.