God is a God of Lovingkindness.

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.