You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

I am luminous with age.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

They never die, who have the future in them.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

You're never going to walk around fear. You're only going to walk through it. I have to do all those things I am afraid of, but I do them constantly renewing my mind.

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.