Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.

...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.

Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.

My greatest joy is in helping others be their best.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.