I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.

The open road, at night, looks like life.There's only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.