I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.