When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

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.

You may be anybody now. One day, you will be just a faded memory.

Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.