When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.

You are the closest I will ever come to magic.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself.

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.