A Daydreamer Is Prepared For Most Things.

Your Punishment If You're A Woman. Not Loved Enough.

I Learned Long Ago That Being Lewis Carroll Was Infinitely More Exciting Than Being Alice.

And I’m Drawn To Failure. I Often Write About It, And I’m Sympathetic With It, I Think, Because I Feel I’m Contending With It Constantly In My Own Life.

I'm Drawn To Write About Upstate New York In The Way In Which A Dreamer Might Have Recurring Dreams. My Childhood And Girlhood Were Spent In Upstate New York, In The Country North Of Buffalo And West Of Rochester. So This Part Of New York State Is Very Familiar To Me And, With Its Economic Difficulties, Has Become Emblematic Of Much Of American Life.

One Of Life's Minor Satisfactions Is Forgetting.