Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape. . . it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor-age, dress, or color-distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.