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

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.

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

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

Be yourself, the divine soul.

This is the better one. It's identical.

Do not scorn little victories.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.