I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it? I'll always find the hardest path.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not What a lovely sermon but I will do something!

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

No one else can think or feel for you .. it's YOU .. ONLY YOU.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.