I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

My greatest gratitude is the gift of life.

She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.

When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.