You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.