Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.