"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"I think it's important to be a little bit crazy."

"I'm not a very good housekeeper. My house is always a mess."

"I think a writer's job is to tell the truth. And the truth is not always pretty."

"Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken societies and their obsessive technologies to other …"