My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.

The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

We can love ourselves by loving the earth.