The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

We live through sound and light—through our technologies.

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

With media, it's never bad-to-good. It's always just moving from different to different. Faster, more stuff, but there's always good, more good, and more bad.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?

All you have to do is be a little bit specific, and all of a sudden, you have your own little niche and people are going to watch.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.