It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

If He is God, He is still in charge.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.