I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

Repeat: Sharing the kids bathroom while my master bath gets renovated is family bonding. So fun.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

can only write about what bites you.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.