The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.