... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

In each painting, I think, it’s as if  God were giving up on finishing the world.

Tea shook his head in dismay. “This is the end, Burt

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

If I practice I'll really alienate people.