The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

My injury I told myself to deal with it, and bounce back stronger. I think I have.

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.