There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got plans for next Thursday. And I’m not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.

The only real person you need to know is you.

Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.