Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.