The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.