Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me.

All great adventures start with an idea.

Bye, Trace. Hope you and Andreja have a good day. Oh, I may be arrested for homicide soon. Please come visit me in prison.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

When love is gone, there's always justice.

Clearly money has something to do with life.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

I will take responsibility for all operations.