Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

To me, magic is everywhere.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.