Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

As with all my children, you must find your own path, and through that discovery, you will decide what each earth child must ultimately decide-whether she chooses chaos or love.