For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Their world has changed overnight ...Even after the trial, after the verdict -- whatever it might be -- life would never be the same again.That was the truth of murder.

I define sacred-living life by the grace of God.

One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.

That smile on Stive Jobs face... My impersonation came from being a fan.

Never underestimate people.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.