Without a doubt. . . the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents normal people don't, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don't; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. I think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals.