Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it.

We dream because that's what life is.Anything else and it would be a nightmare.

Open your arms to the world.

To heal would be to open the wound, examine it and forgive

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."