I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

Fake it till you feel it

As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.

Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!