Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.

We are all unique, but we are also a part of the common body of humanity. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together in joy and happiness.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.

Being called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment.

You should never be satisfied with a little if you are capable of using and enjoying more.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

This administration is totally colorblind.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.