"Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time."

“I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.”

Source : "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

“What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”

“I had my ups and downs and I fell a few times, but I did not give. Don't give up...”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“God hides the fires of hell within paradise.”

“What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.”

“I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing.”

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

“90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.”