I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.