Time is how you spend your love.

Time is how you spend your love.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.