Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures

I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

They love indeed who quake to say they love.

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.