Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.