...this was as if an actual steamroller driven by a crazy grinning idiot had trundled through the door and flattened my entire life into a sad pancake of nothingness.

Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Feelings Are the Compass to Your Soul.

Walk boldly and wisely. ... There is a hand above that will help you on.

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

Beware of creating tedium!

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.

If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.