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

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.

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

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.

Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms