And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.