We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Memory feeds imagination.

Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.