You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

If it’s not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn’t matter today.

The dispute is still before the judge.

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

I like people who like Plato.

I'm not sure if my husband is going to be there when I actually have the baby. He said the only way he's going to be in the room when there's a delivery is if there's a pizza involved.

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.