Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.

You get a lot farther in life without drugs.

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.