Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose.

My darling I still love you, no matter that you're gone.You'll always be with me, forever and ever more.

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Instead of telling God how big your problems are, tell your problem how BIG your God is.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

If God wants it, it will happen.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.