Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

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

I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.

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

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.