There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

Well I loved the idea of playing a girl who dresses up like a dude.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.