a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"He showed her his teeth. "Yes.

When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind.

I don't know what it is with you, but I somehow become more a woman when ever your around.

Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.