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.

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.

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.

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.

I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.