I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort.

When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

Be confident to make your magic.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

Never stop developing and perfecting your abilities, even if you have already achievedsignificant, visible results.

The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.