Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water.

Leaving the broken system the way it is, that's not a solution.

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

That's a way to see it and there is also another way to see it.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

To be, I must endure the pain.

Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere.