When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.