No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

Kelly closed his eyes and began to bargain with God.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.