Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself.

You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go.

Just by writing this story, I thought that I am the real monster, I had the feeling that I am doing it.... it was just awful!

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.