the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

And when in doubt, be extreme.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.

An exact science is one that admits loss.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

A life of prayer is a praise of being.

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Christianity is a religion for losers.