It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

Those who cling to life die and those who defy death live.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.