"You can't have a good marriage unless you're a good person."

"Love is never any better than the lover."

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."

"My work is to make sure that the people I'm writing about are human, and that they are complex, and that they are not stereotypes."

"Sth, I know that feeling. Just when I think I'm in the clear, I find myself in the thick of it again. It's a never-ending battle."