“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.”

“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”

“Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

“What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.”

“Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.”

“Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.”

“Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.”

“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”