Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.