This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.