My idea of Hell is to be young again.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.