One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I never stopped reading.