I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

Love yourself as much you can before loving others. If you don't have something, you can't give it to anyone.

The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.

To undo a Jew is charity and not sin.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

My hits are not hits.

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.