as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer

the worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder.–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy

i am a woman and a poem. – visceral

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless

the thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers

there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.

healingbeginsthe momentyouwant it to

we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.

the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy

Being confident means you know who you are, your strength and your limitation.

Your life on earth will be graded by the effect of the footprints you leave behind

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.