Joyce Carol Oates Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. June 16, 1938
Birthday: June 16
Henry David Thoreau is very independent-minded, very iconoclastic, and had quite a corrosive sense of humor. I think that I probably have grown up to have a Thoreauvian perspective on many things. Though in other ways I live a life he would not have approved of. He believed to simplify, simplify, simplify. Make your life very clear and plain and meditative and not confused. Sometimes my life, in fact, is confused.
source: "America's Foremost Woman of Letters". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006. 
topic: Confused, Independent, Thinking, David Thoreau
