Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

What we see, we see and seeing is changing