I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

If you're getting married less you're getting less divorces.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.