I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

When you have a lot of women in our state that do wear the hijab, we should be able to see that everywhere.

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.