Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

I have a new name for

Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Every single night, I swear, EVERY NIGHT!! EVERY NIGHT!! I DELIVER! I deliver.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

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