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 hated the soup and felt little for the can.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.