Diana Abu-Jaber quotes:

If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it . . . with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Love and prayer are intimately related.