I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

A burnt finger remember the fire.