Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.