. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics. |
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. |
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. |
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. |
I often see through things right to the apparition itself. |
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. |
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. |
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world |
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. |
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else |
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else |
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. |