I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to believe in something, but I don't be….

One of my problems with religion is that it's limiting in so many ways. I remember the first time I took a humanities class, I thought, I can't belie….

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way..

When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as prett….

I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel like I was more of a master of languag….

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writ….

Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a ….

I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him..

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to w….

For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world even though it's di….

Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her hear….

I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their prizes, they hav….

One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels like there's always a tension between wanting to ….

Everybody spoke English in my class, and they would turn to me and say, "What's going on in your country?" I would try to explain to Austrians, Poles….

I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and I find it a lot more difficult. It'….

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't real….

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just….