Thank you.” His lips curved up on one side. “For what?” “For waiting for me.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to.

It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.