... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

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.

We learn to earn and to enhance the beauty of our lives.

You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat burgers."

In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

Woman are complex creatures.