I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

today's my life and i feel that " Every question have an answer but sometime that answer again becomes a question....

The things that you consistently think of yourself and your abilities will always overwrite the things that people say about you.

Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it's taste and the nutrients it contains

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

An adult is just a child who started to rot