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

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.