A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.'- Katrina, 'Convicted

The soul suffers to the pain for the neglect of the spirit.

We are always learning

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.

Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.

You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.