And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

As a woman when you determine your self-worth, you also determine how powerful you are.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I don't tend to go out that much.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

I saw him because I see everything. Easy when no one notices you.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.