"I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that."

"People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are."

"I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working."

"It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship."

"There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing."

"My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship."

"It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context."

"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."