When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.

You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't, it just makes them dead.

You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

Success can be elusive

States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

I really, really love directing films.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

I almost died and everyday, I wish I did.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.