Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

Grace is the best accessory that a woman can wear

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.