In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

We live through sound and light—through our technologies.

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.