I've never let the criticism deter me.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.