There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

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.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.