What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Extra-marital affairs become things of legend… and often the undoing of legends… and mere mortals.

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

You are valuable

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.