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In The Event Of An Oxygen Shortage On Airplanes, Mothers Of Young Children Are Always Reminded To Put On Their Own Oxygen Mask First, To Better Assist The Children With Theirs. The Same Tactic Is Necessary On Terra Firma. There's No Way Of Sustaining Our Children If We Don't First Rescue Ourselves. I Don't Call That Selfish Behavior. I Call It Love.

I Think Of Myself As A Realistic Writer, Not A Creator Of Soap Opera Or Melodrama.

When People Ask What I Write About, That's What I Tell Them: 'the Drama Of Human Relationships.' I'm Not Even Close To Running Out Of Material.

My Job Is Writing. I Get Paid To Do It. When Was The Last Time You Heard Someone Challenge A Doctor For Making Money Off Of Cancer?

I Was Giving A Speech One Time, And The Woman Who Introduced Me Said, 'well, She Used To Be J. D. Salinger's Girlfriend. I Thought, 'god, Is That All I've Been?' I Didn't Want To Be Reduced To That.