We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven’t said, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all...

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s...

If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world.

Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.