Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.