If you want to do things, do things.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

I'm going to be looking to get out like Randy Moss and Terrell Owens.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.