I think I was born with a suitcase.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably — this name that I’d been given at birth that defined me before I’d had the chance to define myself.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.