Much in our lives is chance.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

The let-go of the last little bit is the biggest because, in that, there is no return.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.