In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

You have been the pillowI lay my weary soul upon

your trouble is you. you came and get to know the facts, which were not for you .now till end you will claim your share in to the story, will remain as outsider

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.