I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

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.

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!

Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.