I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

I can see time, " whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Vision gets the dreams started.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.