drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver.

If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.