I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

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.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.