. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

A flowing stream waters the flowers.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

I was born in Siberia, where the biggest oil reserves in Russia are, and I grew up thinking that there was nothing worse for our planet than the oil industry.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti