Almost every month we have 20 to 30 patients needing a recovery room. |
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. |
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. |
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. |
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. |
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with |
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. ... For the first time in her life, she's happy. |
Saving Fish From Drowning |
The name startled me, |
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. |
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife |
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife |
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument |
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. |