There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

God will cause you to prosper, even when man says you won't.

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.