What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

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.

To know Christ Jesus is to seek God.

The right things to do aren't always the easiest actions to take. But we must push ourselves to do them, because without them life would forever seem empty or meaningless.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.