I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.

Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.