Octavius, calm down.""How can I? When you touch my cousin more freely than you touch me? When I walk in, hoping to see my beautiful mate, but I see her with him!

Because I could feel you, I was drowning with you.

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

When all else fails, dream bigger.

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

You have to unzip your heart before you unzip your pants.

I look for challenges to keep me going.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

I write as a witness to what I have seen.