I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.