Humor Is An Antidote To Isolation.

Great Writers Leave Us Not Just Their Works, But A Way Of Looking At Things.

What Society Requires From Art ... Is That It Function As An Early Warning System.

Poets Are The Leaven In The Lump Of Civilization.

I Am Not Sure How Many "sins" I Would Recognize In The World. Some Would Surely Be Defused By Changed Circumstances. But I Can Imagine None That Is More Irredeemably Sinful Than The Betrayal, The Exploitation, Of The Young By Those Who Should Care For Them.

We Older Women Who Know We Aren't Heroines Can Offer Our Younger Sisters, At The Very Least, An Honest Report Of What We Have Learned And How We Have Grown.