“People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.” PeoplePersonalityKnow MePoise Author:Karrine Steffans
“I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.” Acting Author:Karrine Steffans
“There are a few things that tend to infuriate me. One is ignorance, because I have become accustomed to speaking to very intelligent people like Gore Vidal and Al Franken on a regular basis, since dating Bill Maher.” PeopleIgnoranceDatingIntelligent Author:Karrine Steffans
“When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.” WritingKindDifferentObsessionDifferent KindsHostage Author:W. S. Di Piero
“When I'm in an interview with someone who is not intelligent, but flat-out ignorant, idiotic and stupid, or just an ass, it really gives me a headache.” GivingStupidIntelligentIgnorantAssHeadacheIdiotic Author:Karrine Steffans
“I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how peoples live in cities, how peoples anywhere manage to co-exist, the public life and the private life.” CultureCuriosityManage Author:W. S. Di Piero
“Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?” EnthusiasmStaringDistraction Author:W. S. Di Piero
“This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives on rooftops like a gentle stranger, rain rushes us love to love, stop to stop, these veins of leaf, hand, storm and stream, as if in pursuit of us and what we are becoming.” RainPlantStrangerStormGentleChemistry Author:W. S. Di Piero
“You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.” AnimalBrainPoetComment Author:W. S. Di Piero