Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

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.

There is nothing more amazing than being with the one you love.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Given the blatant deceit regarding the biologically harmful effects of antenna towers, cell phones and WiFi radiation, one can only wonder what is going on with all of the other forms of radiation.

A good leader lead from the heart not the head.

The thought of friends or family enjoying themselves in my absence gives me the heebie-jeebies.

When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

I am hunted by humans.

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.