Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

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.

A joke is necessary at this time.

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

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

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