gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.