I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

All important things are hard.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.