...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.