I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I still consider myself a feminist.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.