The body is a curious monster, no place to live in, how could anyone feel at home there? - Katherine Anne Porter

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.