When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby