Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?