How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone. who could i love more than this peace?

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.