"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything."

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."

"But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."

"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."

"After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people."

"The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact."

"Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."