I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Take one day at a time. Allow yourself to change.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.