- We're talking this show about lessons.
I mean, can you even--
is there a best lesson or favorite lesson when you're 80?
Yeah, it's one that I can articulate now,
and I think I sort of knew it all along.
I know that what is alive for me,
and I have a place that is mine.
That's my work.
When I write, that's mine.
It is free.
Nobody tells me what to do, and I wouldn't listen if they did.
It's all mine.
It's my world.
I have invented it.
These are my people.
This is my language.
And now I have come to believe that everybody
needs one of those places.
It could be gardening.
You know, it's just a place where it's you and what you do.
It can be creative.
It can be computer.
It can be anything.
But it's your sacred--
It's your sacred place, and you own it.
And that's what you do when you write.
That's what I do when I write.
You go into that space for yourself.
TONI MORRISON: Exactly.