When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

No man can use his brain to think for another.

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

Fighting for kids and families has been the cause of my life.

I'm kind of new to Twitter. I'm about one year in, so I'm a little late to the party.

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.