We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

What is true today may be false tomorrow, and true again the day after tomorrow.

There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.

For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool.

The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.