All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.