Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".

I think that women are not treated fairly in the media.

There are a lot of things that people are doing unconsciously wrong.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

One guy can't create a field, but you can get people thinking.

From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.