I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

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.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.