There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

Kitty need's a tounge bath

If we could make it work will you give us a chance?

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

I kind of do high-low style a lot.

A woman's heart always has a burned mark.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?