But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

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.

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.

Pray with expectation to get an answer.

It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.

Are your habits and hygiene hindering your success or making a great first impression on your behalf?

The logic of the heart is absurd.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.