I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

Am I the I she tried to save, still lopsided with trying to be a little less or more, escaping who I was a minute ago?

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

It is not what happens to us that causes our pain and suffering, it is our thinking pattern and perception of our experiences that create our reality and contribute to our well-being or suffering

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.