"If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence."

“I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.”

Source : "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

“To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.”

“The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.”

“I'd love to say "Donald Trump is just sexist." And I do believe he's sexist, but I also believe that he also treats anyone who is his opponent in a very insane and disrespectful way.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com

“Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

“Most comic book creators consider about making characters that people recognize and that can carry across many books. Something that becomes a trademark. For me I have always just followed IDEAS, and that takes me into a whole range of things.”

“I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.”