That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God’s plan for you.

It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

I walk wherever my errands take me.