Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.