...smile first, then speak.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider

It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even as a little kid and there was a lot of wonder there, and openness to the many sides of life.