The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.

If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

I had a maternal instinct once, it lasted 48 hours

That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

Dreams can never be made captive.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.