Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.