"Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated."

“Overnight I became a cottage industry.”

“I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.”

“I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!”

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

“Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.”

“What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.”

“My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.”

“The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.”