If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.