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

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.

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

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.