Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.