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

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.