I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Life has no beginning, middle or end.