Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.

A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.

Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

In the end, what we gain is pain!

Every emotion that we experience on a moment-by-moment basis has origin. The origin is a thought (s).

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.