I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.