We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Never give up, the hope of living.

You have everything you need today to do what God has for you to do today.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.