If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. -Mary Karr Marriage
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. -Mary Karr Poetry
I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it. -Mary Karr Diet
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. -Mary Karr Poetry
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. -Mary Karr Poetry
