“When I was a girlthe books I read were by men. ”

“I am five, I will never understandwhy we are stranded in our selvesbut in this moment I knowmy own storyis understanding our singlenessthat I am destined to move my body and timeinto the body-timethe storyof Others.”

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

“The local paper is called the World.”

“Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.”

“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”

“I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.”