Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.