If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller
Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed thats how my book begins, too, but I hadnt noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. – Michael Chabon
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the childs problems will never be important enough for a television movie. – Nora Ephron