For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

It ends when you’re ready for a new beginning.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty exclusively from freaks only.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.