Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

Habit is a second nature.

They say miracles are past.

My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.