I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.