Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.