There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.