But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

It started In heaven I know Lady love may die Lady Love may grow But you know You’re my eternal love ………………….

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.

Change, like healing, takes time.