When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude

I noticed that I was stronger than him. Right when I grabbed his wrist, he was going right down to his chest.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

I'm with my kids 24 hours a day when I'm not here. You do what you need to do for business, but you make sure your kids are No. 1.

Batman never struck or assaulted anyone. The officer grabbed him, and Batman jerked away. That was the extent of it.

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.