People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.