A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.