We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.