I cannot get close to any you.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Loving a woman is always political.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

she wanted because art

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.