I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.

Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.

When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.