The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.
Art's too long and life's too short.
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.