Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

If you can’t move a mountain by faith, move it by carrying away stone by stone.

The bigger the corporation, the bigger the corruption. The more invisible the corporation, the more malicious it is.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

You're the drug that works.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.