Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.