Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

We live through sound and light—through our technologies.

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Just because you are on a path to damnation, doesn’t mean you’re going to get there. Be willing to change your travel plans.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.

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.

Friendship is more important than truth.