Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.