No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

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.

An army of lovers shall not fail.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.