I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and they don't tell you that as girls. How am I supposed to know that blinking light means something? There are all these little languages that you have to know, but you don't know.