I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.