Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

I am luminous with age.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

They never die, who have the future in them.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Songs live longer than kingdoms.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

She felt as though she’d found a moment of forever. Like this was how they should’ve always been

Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.