Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

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.

Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

I ask for a decreedooming my bitter enemies to laughteradvanced against them.

Sweets to the sweet farewell!

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Information is control.

The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will lose it quicker than a sense that he's in it for a quick buck.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.