I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably would have just gone to law school. And the scary part is that I was one of those kids who always tested really well. You put a test in front of me, and I would have been like do-do-do-do-do. I probably would have been some community lawyer somewhere - if anything, that's probably what I would have been doing.

You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.

The only way out is in.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.