Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].