Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

Art's too long and life's too short.

When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?