Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.