I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

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.

You have mastered the art of discipline when you are able to act according to what you ultimately desire rather than how you feel in the present moment.

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.