"I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken."

“It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.”

“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”

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

“Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.”

“The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.”

Source : "In the Pina Colada zone" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2004.

“This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.”

“The energy is changing here dramatically. That's part of the upheaval of the drama. The dimensional shifts are accelerating. The magnetic energy at the core of the Earth has transformed to take in the new settings of our awakening selves.”

“When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2009.

“The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.”