The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.

Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this shit.

An elevator doesn’t exist without its freight. If there’s no one to get on, the elevator remains in quiescence. The elevator and the passenger need each other.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

My story has been the story of my generation.

I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.