Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

If you want to do things, do things.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.