In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

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

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.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

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

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

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!