Lea, you know you should never have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

War is the mother of everything.

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.