Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

Deep down in my heart, I know that I know nothing.

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

It's really not that difficult to be happy. You just have to be grateful and especially appreciate what you do have now. The rest will come, my dear.

Life has two phases one is light and one is darkness. When we are in dark, we can see everything in the light. But when we are in light we can't see what's in dark.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Melancholy is no bad thing.