It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed, but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

I think if we're looking at lasting peace in the Middle East, the United States has got to respect the needs of the Palestinian people. They cannot be pushed aside.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.