A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

For scientists, reality is not optional.