I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.