I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

To live with hope is a happy state of being.

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most believe in most strongly expect on the deepest level and imagine most vividly.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

In our eyes we should be up three to one but we're not

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.