“Being ready is everything.”

“When I grow up next year my life will be easy." Vanity”

“Change happens when people care."From my novel in progress, Eco-Terrorist”

“A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear.”

“Everything new and beautiful seems to arrive already haunted by its own demise.”

“Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.”

“Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.”