Mona Simpson People Quotations

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways.

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.