The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.