The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
Much handled things are always soft(27).
To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.
I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.