Life is sweet, life is also very short.

I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.