Age and illness made one a dualist

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Will never be happy if you continue to disturb the happiness of others

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

And when and Eve submitted unto Satan they are the ones that empowered Satan. In a sense Man made Satan. God created Lucifer but Man made Satan.

I'm very moody when it comes to food. Even before pregnancy I would just get very specific with things that I wanted.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.