“If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.”

“I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.”

“Failure's a natural part of life.”

“I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.”

“I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in...”

“I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.”

“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.”