My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)

Words are just noises we make to describe stuff.

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

Very well.""Say it.""Say what?""Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.

When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!