To want is to have a weakness.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

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

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.

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.