Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Marriage is holy and it's private.

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

After all these years, his best friend is malaria.Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?