We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

If people are not laughing at your Goals, your Goals are not big enough!

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.