You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
I love to swim, and I love being near water.
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
I love the structural part of the writing process.
I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.
Few there are that will endure a true friend.
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
