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

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

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

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.

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.

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.