If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

Long live the dreamer inside of me.

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.