"Animal welfare issues have always been important to me."

“I love receiving fan mail.”

“Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.”

“We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.”

“Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press

“It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.”

“Where the material ends, art begins.”

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out.”

“Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.”

Source : Interview with Patrick Wolohan, www.sfsignal.com. August 24, 2009.