Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

The burning off and the gathering together are one.

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen

Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.