Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.