People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

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.

Dreamers Can.

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

I won't read novels while writing novels.