I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

I was really good at sitting around and debating things in my head.

You don’t have to want to be in arelationship for a little bow-chicka-bow-wow.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them