For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.

There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basicbiological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us wantto live.

From ashes I cameTo ashes, I'll return.But tonight I'm contentTo sit here and burn.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

My will can control anything that’s empty.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.