I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?