I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

When in doubt, know your way out, I always say.""I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'""Well, yeah, that

Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss.

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.