I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

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.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard.

The "styles" are a lie.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.