And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

What you risk reveals what you value.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.