I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?