Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

A billion stars go spinning through the night, glittering above your head, But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.

Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

I am a very emotional person.

Believe in your own potential for greatness.

There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Short people got no reason to live.