Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.