Morals are private. Decency is public.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.