“My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap i...”

“Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.”

“I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.”

“Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!”

“To all you sensitive sallys out there who spend your time scribing angry letters, I have great news: Scientific models show that in the not-too-distant future, all the races will become so complete...”

“Some people need Hell. If youre the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, Hey, now theres something I could rape and kill without any consequences, then the concept...”

“I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.”

“Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives”

“Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”