I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

God has a specific plan for you

Spain is more vegan-friendly than you've been led to believe. The truth is, most places are.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Have faith in God God has faith in you.

Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.