The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

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

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?