People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.