Society, like nature, is one body, really.

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.

To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Say hello to your life.

I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.