Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.