There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

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.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.