I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.