I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

I experienced unrequited love early.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.