In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space ….

I'm very aware that we make these decisions toward love or hate every day. I certainly don't have the stamina to live through each day making only th….

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present..

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it..

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things….

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang..

In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen t….

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Her….

Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the w….

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a wo….

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in t….

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people..

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accru….

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write abo….

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know..

There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that….

It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No..

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know..

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity..

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail..