The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

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.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.