Significance is inherent in the human body.

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You're worthy.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.