And Quotes

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.

My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul.

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.