I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

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