It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.