I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

He said, 'Always. Always.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.