Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.