We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

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.

Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.

All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.