It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.