People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.

It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana, ’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.’ - ‘Aunt Juliana’s Indian

If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.

You may not fully discover who you are until you are helped by the Holy Spirit.

I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.