If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

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

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.

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

Life has no beginning, middle or end.