Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.

Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.