in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

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.

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

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.

I know you weren’t born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.