Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.