What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.