We write about what we don't know about what we know.

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.

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Never be afraid to chase your dream at any age.

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Now we are living in the age of comics as air