I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

NOTHING IS GREATER THAN ITS SOURCE

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

There are no throwaway people.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.