No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

My main goal is to tell a story.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.