"I am an old lady. I’m going to die soon. I want to say what I think."

"I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"The unread story is not a story; it is a sentence, a string of words, until it has been read. The reader is a collaborator."

"I am not an optimist. I am a possibilist."

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."