I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

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.

Nismo odustali, samo smo nastavili dalje.Toksicne veze nisu vredne spasavanja.

You are a wonderful sacred-soul.

If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Export of terror by any country (eventho a low cost operation) always undermines strategic balance.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Lots of ways to reach God, I chose love.