The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody, ' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

Misfortune was my god.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.