And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

I'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier.

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.