Right And Wrong Were Shades Of Meaning,

Money Helps, Though Not So Much As You Think When You Don't Have It.

We All Got Holes In Our Lives. Nobody Dies In A Perfect Garment.

To Be Of Mixed Blood Is A Great Gift For A Writer. I Have One Foot On Tribal Lands And One Foot In Middle-class Life.

Now I'm Sixty-one... Sixty-two, Pretty Soon. It's A Really Interesting Age. Now We Have Women Of Your Age, And Coming Up, And All These Fantastic Writers, Who Have Managed To Have Their Children But Continue With Their Art, Their Work. I Think Women Are Doing The Most Interesting Writing Right Now, The Most Interesting Art. I See Everything Through This Lens, Of Women Finally Taking Their Place In The World. Their True Place. And It's Very, Very Exciting To Me.

There Are Ways Of Being Abandoned Even When Your Parents Are Right There.