I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Everything ends with flowers.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

Always remember that we are here to be kind, loving, and forgiving. We are here to enjoy the abundant ecstasy of life.

‎"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

I'd love to go on a safari - [I've] never been on a safari.

Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.