Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

I change myself, I change the world.

Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up the rest.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

People don't buy from clowns.

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

... survival is the least of my desires.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life.