"There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests."

“History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.”

“It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.”

Source : Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.36, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.”

“I enjoy doing nothing.”

“Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.”

Source : "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.

“Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.”

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”

“To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!”