Write to your fear.

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.

She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.

Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

Give Him your mess and let it become your message.