I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range.

And thou shalt be secure because there is hope.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.