Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Everything ends with flowers.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

Once you become a known writer, you will not have bad books anymore. You will only have less good books than the good ones.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.