The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Every reading is a misreading.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

I don't like failing at anything.

Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.