It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

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.

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.

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.

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

Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to.

Trials and tribulations only come into your life to test you, so you could make some testimonies out of them.

Keep your identity small.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?

The earth is Godʹs golf ball.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.