Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.
Write the book you want to read
Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
You become the movie you are making.
I'm a shy human being.
I had to test a new terror in myself.
I am an optimist about America.
All books are either dreams or swords.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
I have a trend of my own.
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
I know how to write fiction well.
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.
I am an aging Girl Scout.
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
