Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Never be ashamed of your creativity. It simply shows everyone of how you can express your emotions through art

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

Gos bless America, my home sweet home.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

It's not Trump who is insane. It's everybody who is predisposed to hate him.

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.