Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Ironically your greatest spiritual asset is what appears to be your greatest obstacle: your obsession with yourself. Today we live in the age of individualism. – Richard Harvey

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.