If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near

If you can dream it up. You can team it up.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

Don't kill the golden goose.

Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.