"I write for myself and for my friends. And for the people who are not my friends, but who might become my friends."

"I think it's important to be a little bit crazy."

"My mind is a muddle. I can't write a coherent sentence. I'm going to go eat a cookie."

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."