I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

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.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

If your heart truly stops when she looks at you, how come you are still alive?

In Nature, the purpose of life is to achieve a goal. In human terms, it is called happiness.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.