One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.