I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces

There are things I can't force. I must adjust.

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

Things can only go so far before you can't take them any further for them to be exciting.

Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away'... It's just important - just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.