Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.