In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

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.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.