Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

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.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.