Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. I think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. I see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. Their true place. And it's very, very exciting to me.

I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.