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

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

There's magic in the words. In the right order, they can make you cry, make you smile, or even make you stronger. But only if you have tasted a life that's worth living.

I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched