I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't know what that means. I know what they think they mean.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.