I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.