Alice Walker

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. ”

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. ”

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. ”

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. ”

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it. ”

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ”

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ”

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. ”

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? ”

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. ”