Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

All birth is unwilling.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.